Firstly, I forgot to mention that while on our visit. Yesterday to the Dungeons in Warwick castle, Denise was sent to court and convicted of witchcraft, so that's the reason why I always have toads in my sandwich.
Anyway on to today, another beautiful sunny morning, so after breakfast we leave our mooring of two nights behind, a lovely setting and a five min walk to the twin and castle, the Saltisford Canal trust keep this part of the canal lovely and clean a great place to moor overnight.
So its back on to the main part of the canal and its not long before we encounter our first lock, one of twenty one today one after another, and we are unlucky on most of them as they are full as we approach and need to be emptied before we can use them.These locks are named Hatton locks or as the locals call them Stairways to Heaven http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatton_Locks
This is the procedure it is drop Denise off onto the canal towpath then open paddle let water out, gate open, cruise in, shut gate, shut paddle walk to other gate, open paddle, fill up lock with water open gate move boat out of lock, shut gate and repeat for another twenty times.
Denise and fellow lock operators ..
It wasn't to bad as a lock keeper named Paul, helped us on most of the locks and after three hours we had completed them,and the weather is fantastic so its a joy to be out in the countryside.A little bit further on we moor up and unfortunately for us not by a pub so no shandy today, speak to you tomorrow.
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